Swami Sivananda (1964). Sri Krishna. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. стр. 4.
Diana L. Eck (2012). India: A Sacred Geography. Harmony. стр. 380—381. ISBN978-0-385-53190-0.. Quote: "Krishna was shot through the foot, hand, and heart by the single arrow of a hunter named Jara. Krishna was reclining there, so they say, and Jara mistook his reddish foot for a deer and released his arrow. There Krishna died."
K. Klostermaier (1997). The Charles Strong Trust Lectures, 1972–1984. Crotty, Robert B. Brill Academic Pub. стр. 109. ISBN978-90-04-07863-5. „(...) After attaining to fame eternal, he again took up his real nature as Brahman. The most important among Visnu's avataras is undoubtedly Krsna, the black one, also called Syama. For his worshippers he is not an avatara in the usual sense, but Svayam Bhagavan, the Lord himself.”